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James Armistead Lafayette, a Black Patriot who served as a spy for the Continental Army during the Siege of Yorktown. Engraved portrait by an unknown artist, based on an original painting by John B. Martin, c. 1824. Virginia Historical Society...

James Covey, interpreter in the Amistad case, illustration from page 9 of A History of the Amistad Captives by John Warner Barber, 1840.

Portrait of James Monroe, future US president, painting by Louis Semé, 1794. Illustration from As I Remember: Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur, 1911.

James Monroe, oil on canvas portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse, c. 1819. White House, Washington, D.C.

James Madison, fourth President of the United States, portrait by John Vanderlyn, 1816. White House Historical Association (White House Collection), Washington, D.C.

Miniature portrait of future US President James Madison in 1783, when he was a 32-year-old delegate to the Continental Congress. Watercolor on ivory, by Charles Willson Peale, 1783. This miniature was given to Catherine 'Kitty' Floyd, who...

A photograph of the Scottish engineer James Nasmyth (1808-1890) who invented the steam hammer in 1839 during the Industrial Revolution. (The Science Museum, London)

US Brigadier General James Winchester, defeated at the Battle of the River Raisin (January 1813), portrait by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1817. Tennessee Portrait Project.

Portrait of James Monroe as Secretary of State in 1816, the year he was elected president of the US. Oil on canvas portrait by John Vanderlyn, 1816. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

James McLaughlin (l. 1842-1923), US Indian Inspector of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, best known for ordering the arrest of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull in December 1890 and requesting the troops that participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre...